The Wilfrid de Glehn estate is represented by
David Messum Fine Art Ltd.
London
England
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Wilfrid and Jane would emerge each morning from their rooms on the Giudecca bearing paints, canvases, books and brushes, which they would load into a gondola. They would spend their days on the canals sketching the quiet backwaters as well as the more famous views around the Doge’s palace and St Mark’s Square. Frequently Sargent would catch up with them during the course of the day, and on one such occasion he painted a watercolour of Jane in a broad hat with a veil. She was thrilled, writing to her mother that
We went out sketching with Sargent the other day and he made a water colour of me at the end of the gondola. Awfully clever. There is really no face. It is all white veil and hat, but it is deliciously done.
The city always retained a special place in the de Glehns’s hearts and they returned frequently until as late as the mid-twenties.
On the Giudecca, c. 1904
The Basilica di San Marco, watercolour
